From: Alan <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 04:07:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Stronghold
In-Reply-To: <199710051646.SAA26190@basement.replay.com>
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971005124514.03d6c91c@ctrl-alt-del.com>
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At 06:46 PM 10/5/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>
>John Young wrote:
>> Dimitri, out with Stronghold's fault, if you've got it. C2, cut the
>> legal bluff, it stinks. The badmouthing by both of you is the same old
>> toxic waste -- and may mean the two of you're are now in cahoots
>> to boost each other's shoddy goods and hide the faults behind a
>> phony dispute, like 50 years of mock competitive Ameri-Russky
>> junk national security communist-capitalist racketeering so beloved
>> by die-hard globalist TLAs of business and government.
>
>It is becoming increasingly obvious that John Young is the real
>troublemaker here. I wouldn't doubt that it was John who was
>behind the original troubles between Vulis and Sameer.
>I think that John Young should be forcefully unsubscribed from
>the Cypherpunks mailing lists. 

That is bullshit!

So far, there have been claims to a backdoor but no actual proof.
Everytime someone asks for said proof, there is a huge amount of handwaving
and misdirection as to why any sort of proof cannot be revealed.  Each time
the excuses get more and more elaborate.  "C2Net will sue us." "We can make
more money if we keep it secret." "It is already well known."

But the excuses get pretty thin after a while without any real proof.

Yes, employees of C2Net have acted in a stupid manner.  But, in my opinion,
you are using that as a smokescreen to avoid having to reveal anything
substantial.  (Because you do not have anything substantial.)

You can point fingers, accuse people of all sorts of things, and make all
the wheeping wailing and knashing of teeth you want.  It still somes down
to the fact that you have shown no hard evidence that such a backdoor exists.

Put up or shut up.

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